Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... Sandstone . Coal - Measures . Millstone Grit . Mountain Limestone . Lower Coal - Measures . Yellow Sandstones . Devonian Limestones and Slaty Shales . Red Sandstones , Conglom- erates , and Cornstones . Grey fissile Sandstones and ...
... Sandstone . Coal - Measures . Millstone Grit . Mountain Limestone . Lower Coal - Measures . Yellow Sandstones . Devonian Limestones and Slaty Shales . Red Sandstones , Conglom- erates , and Cornstones . Grey fissile Sandstones and ...
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... sandstones , shales , ironstones , coals , and limestones of the older strata , with their enclosed fossils , reveal in a similar way the general facts of their formation but in these deepest rocks , where stratification is in a great ...
... sandstones , shales , ironstones , coals , and limestones of the older strata , with their enclosed fossils , reveal in a similar way the general facts of their formation but in these deepest rocks , where stratification is in a great ...
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... Sandstone of England is as much a triumph of scientific deduction as the obstinate boring for it at the base of the Old Red Sandstone in Strathearn was a defeat of empirical ignorance . * And here we cannot help remarking how anomalous ...
... Sandstone of England is as much a triumph of scientific deduction as the obstinate boring for it at the base of the Old Red Sandstone in Strathearn was a defeat of empirical ignorance . * And here we cannot help remarking how anomalous ...
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... the water - side and had witnessed their growth , decay , and entombment . Any series of limestones , sandstones , and shells , for example , containing star - fish , sea- urchins , or corals , are set down as having 42 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
... the water - side and had witnessed their growth , decay , and entombment . Any series of limestones , sandstones , and shells , for example , containing star - fish , sea- urchins , or corals , are set down as having 42 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
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... sandstones , con- glomerates , limestones , and coals of the solid crust to the existence of similar conditions , and the operation of similar agents . Nothing can be more logical or satisfactory than this procedure ; and when a shale ...
... sandstones , con- glomerates , limestones , and coals of the solid crust to the existence of similar conditions , and the operation of similar agents . Nothing can be more logical or satisfactory than this procedure ; and when a shale ...
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Página 135 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
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